Re: Re: Market socialism -- summing up?

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:59 PM 7/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
> A perpetual shortage of consumer goods (hence the rule of insecurity &
> unpleasant surprises) obviously wouldn't do.  The disagreement is that I
> think the Hayekian critique doesn't prove -- except by fiat of Hayek's
> assumption that divinely perfect knowledge is necessary for successful
> planning -- that planned economy can never make us enjoy freedom &
> pleasure & abundance.

hey, I thought that Hayek assumed that _Devinely_ perfect knowledge is
necessary for successful planning.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine